A15: Body Language -  3 units
JoNeal Scully
Mon. 1:00–2:30 p.m. - Sept. 15, 22, 29
Senior Center - Limit: 75

JoNeal Scully, president of Human Patterns Consultants, specializes in assessing personality and identifying behavioral patterns. She teaches “Body Language as an Investigative Technique” and “Nonverbal Detection of Deception” to private investigators and security officers. She lectures on nonverbal communications for Administration of Justice courses at PVCC. She consults with attorneys regarding jury selection and taped interviews.

  Ninety-three percent of all communication is nonverbal. Words convey seven percent of the message. Attitudes and emotions are communicated silently and picked up nonverbally by others. People who know how to read and use body language are more effective in their communications.

  After learning to read the body language of others, we will examine our own nonverbal messages. Do you sometimes receive reactions you don’t expect? Perhaps your words say one thing while your body says something else. We will explore gestures (including those of politicians), the subtle signs of deception, the rules regarding our personal spaces and who is allowed to enter them, how to establish rapport with others and to make them feel comfortable and cooperative, and why we stand stiffly and whisper in the confines of an elevator.

We can all learn how to send a message that we are centered, at ease, and confident.